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Sense and Sensibility

So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura 301 Moved Permanently Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull job

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being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety of nations when
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Overkill: art rising from the dead

Things have

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gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love of 301 Moved Permanently God. In

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those days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]

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The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks –

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has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was
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part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed, but not exactly in the 301 Moved Permanently terms the article intends. Here […]

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1988 … Year zero

… when

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branding and art formed a marriage of convenience,
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argues artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the year that our concepts of art, money and 301 Moved Permanently values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to London as a 23-year-old artist, having taken an opportunity to play league cricket in London. It was a chance for a young […]